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Chief economist update: Brexit - the news that was

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020
... single market - but will be outside the political institutions and there will be no British members of the European Parliament" and by this time next year, the UK would be completely divorced from the European Union (EU) with, or without, a deal. For ...

Chief economist update: The key to ECB taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2018
... thus more resistant to a potential slowdown in global demand", when he spoke before the ECON committee of the European Parliament in Brussels. There's no question about the veracity of Draghi's words. The statistics are there for all to see. The economy ...

Super Mario dropkicks markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
... three measures on our balance sheet size will be significant. And our balance sheet, as I think I said in the European Parliament, is expected to be steered towards the dimension, the size, it had at the beginning of 2012." Yup, there's that 2012 level ...

Run with bulls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... comforting words. Just last night, Super Mario told the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs at the European Parliament in Strasbourg that, "We will maintain a high degree of monetary policy accommodation. In view of the outlook for inflation ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014
... "cautiously positive with elections in Europe and Ukraine". Czech voters headed for the polls on Friday as European Parliament elections reached the east, where the Ukraine crisis is expected to hurt eurosceptics, while Ireland also joined the four-day ...

Don't be disappointed if the ECB disappoints

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2013
... the problem now, you ask? If you go back to ECB President Marion Draghi's speech before the Plenary of the European Parliament two weeks ago (16 April), you'll find him telling the "honourable members of the European Parliament" that, "the repair of ...

Global cooling on carbon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2013
... the troubles that still plague the global economy, this too is made in Europe. Carbon prices fell after the European Parliament rejected the European Commission's plan to backload - that is, take 900 million tonnes of carbon credits off market and return ...

Put up or shut up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
... financing if anything at all that we are doing." The discussions were reportedly behind closed-door session at the European Parliament in Brussels. So what is it doing out in the openness of cyberspace - and seemingly with all the juicy details at that? ...

Taxes should not target PE: BVCA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2007
... shone on private equity. European private equity associations recently presented a special briefing to the European Parliament designed to address similar concerns raised by the TUC.

European interest rates to remain steady, ECB chief hints

... and continued, though modest, real GDP growth in the euro-area," ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet told the European parliament's economic and monetary affairs committee. Although the Frenchman did not give a figure, the ECB has recently forecast the ...
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